Package



c. Rossum 2,064,321

PACKAGE Dec. 15, 1936.

Filed Dec. 2'7, 1935 ATTOR Patented Dec. 15, 1936 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE PACKAGE Charles Rossum, Brooklyn, N. Y., assignor to Continental Folding Paper Box Co., Inc., Ridgeeld, N. J., a corporation of New York Application DeoemberZ, 1935, Serial No. 56,307 1 Claim. (Cl. 229-28) This invention relates to packages and is parlapping of each pair of flanges serves to reinticularly directed to boxes for packing articles force the sides of the platform. for display or shipment. The invention is ap- The upper iioor Il of the platform is provided plicable to various types of boxes, such as folding, with an opening of such size and shape as to 5 set-up, corrugated, etc. More specifically the inaccommodate the article. In other words, this vention contemplates the provision in such boxes opening should be large enough to permit of inof a novel platform for resiliently or yieldingly sertion of the article and yet engage the periphery suspending the articles in the boxes. of the article after insertion. It will be noted It is one of the objects of my invention to profrom Figs. 2, 3 and 4 that the opening in the vide a package or carton of the character indiupper floor II is slightly smaller than the larger 10 cated wherein a cushioning effect is obtained diameter of the article I0 so that the article will which is of particular advantage especially in be retained in the platform should the box or packing fragile articles such as hollow candy, carton I be inverted. for example, for shipment. In packages for such The lower floor I2 of the platform likewise has articles as at present constructed wherein no rean opening in vertical alignment with the open- 15 siliency or cushioning effect is provided for the ing inthe floor II. This opening, however, is of article the breakage in transit is enormous. small dimensions so as to permit of the article -Another object of my invention is the provision being seated therein. of a platform having two floors supported in The platform is made a tight fit in the box I spaced relation in a folding paper box or carton or if desired the same may be pasted in the box. 20

out of contact with the top and bottom of the Also if desired the flanges of the two iioors of carton whereby the article supported by the platthe platform may be pasted together.

form will be cushioned and maintained out of It will be appreciated from the foregoing that contact with the top and bottom of the carton. I have provided a package wherein articles may Further objects of my invention will be manibe resiliently suspended out of contact with the 25 fest from the following description and the actop and bottom of the package, whereby the dancompanying drawing in which drawing: ger to breakage in transit is prevented.

Fig. 1 is a plan view of my improved package Referring to Fig. 3 it will be noted that the with an article therein; platform is inclined. This inclination is due to Fig. 2 is asectional view on line 2-2 of Fig. 1; the side flanges I3, I4 and I5, IB being tapered 30 Fig. 3 is a sectional view on line 3-3 of Fig. 1; and is for the purpose of accommodating articles Fig. 4 is a sectional view of a package similar to of irregular shape, such for instance an article that of Fig. l except that the package of this as illustrated in Fig. 3 in which one end is thicker figure accommodates a plurality of articles; and than the other.

Fig. 5 is a modification of my improved In the package illustrated in Fig. 4 the con- 35 package. struction is the same as the package of Fig. 1 with Referring to the drawing in detail, I designates the exception that a plurality of articles are shown a paper box or carton shown as of the folding supported on the platform. variety having side walls 2 and .3, end walls 4 In the modification illustrated in Fig. 5 I have 4o and 5 and a cover B. The side walls are provided turned the side flanges 2U and 2| of the upper 40 with flanges l and 8, respectively, at their top floor of the platform upwardly so as to contact edge, the cover of the box or carton while the flanges Within the box is my improved platform which 22 and 23 of the lower floor remain in contact comprises an upper floor II and a lower oor I2 with the bottom of the box, as further insurance disposed in spaced relation. These floors are against contact of the article with the top and 45 of fairly light weight cardboard or other suitable bottom of the box. yielding material. The upper floor I I is provided It is to be understood that while I have menwith side flanges I3 and I4 which are folded tioned hollow candy as an article which may be downwardly and engage or rest upon the bottom packed in my improved package that I do not wish 5o of the carton. The lower floor I2 likewise is to confine my invention to the packaging of such 50 provided with side flanges l5 and I6 which extend articles as obviously my improved package can downwardly to the bottom of the box. It will accommodate manifold articles such as chinabe seen that these side flanges maintain the floors ware, glassware, bric-a-brac, globes, and in fact II and I2 out of contact with the bottom of the any fragile article.

box and it will be appreciated that the over- It is also to be understood that various changes 55 and modifications may be made in the structure herein illustrated without departing from the spirit and scope of my invention.

What I claim is:-

In a carton having side walls, end walls a bottom and a cover the combination of a platform comprising a single sheet of resilient material folded to provide an upper oor and a lower floor spaced from each other by a vertical wall on one end and a Vertical wall on the other end, the 1atter wall being formed by overlapping a flange depending downwardly from said upper floor and a iiange projecting upwardly from the lower floor,

said openings whereby to resiliently support said 10 article between said oors.

CHARLES ROSSUM. 

